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Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan took their fight for civil partnerships before the Supreme court

One of The First -sex couples shuffled to the civil Partner", was assessed as a "unique, special and personal moment".

Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, who won a legal battle for The Right to be heterosexual civil partnerships celebrated in Kensington and Chelsea Register Office in west London.

Previously, The Law only allowed same-sex couples, civil partners.

Approximately 84,000 mixed-sex could make couples to have civil partnerships in the next year, the government says.

Introduced for same-sex couples in the year 2005, civil partnerships provide an almost identical legal rights as marriage, including real estate, succession and tax claims.

According to Ms. Steinfeld and Mr. Keidan their legal bid won at the Supreme court in the year 2018 for The Right to a civil partnership instead of a marriage, The Rules were changed in order to available to everyone in England and Wales.

The Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill is currently making its way through the Scottish Parliament to make gender-mixed partnerships are legal North of The Border .

And in Northern Ireland , a law that also requires it to expand to mixed use in civil partnerships sex couples.

Speaking on The Steps of the register-office, Ms-Steinfeld said, to make your "personal wish", a civil partnership formally came out of a "desire to shape our relationship in a more modern way, with a focus on equality and mutual respect".

She Said : "So today is a unique, special and personal moment for us a moment, we have been able to claim that Our Love and commitment to each other in The Company of our beautiful children, Eden and Ariel, and Close Friends . "

Ms Steinfeld said, it new, modern ways "for thousands of people", to their love and commitment and ends with "the undisputed position of the marriage".

she called for "deeper discussions" on the recognition of the legal recognition of other types of care relationships, including those Between Friends , siblings and co-parents.

Mr Keidan said they managed their legal battle is "against all odds", But added that their Mental Health suffered under The Strain .

Five years after his permission, refused to give notice of a heterosexual registered partnership, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan final civil Partner today.

their conscientious objection to marriage, and what she saw, how its Patriarchal associations led to a lengthy legal battle culminating in a unanimous Supreme court ruling last year that The Law as " discriminatory and violated their right to family and private.

The government changed The Law , the opening of such a unit on the majority of the British 3. 3 million non-Married heterosexual couples.

Many believe they are already marriages protected by the so-called "common-law", But these are not available.

As a result, they do not enjoy the same property rights, inheritance and tax entitlements as Married couples and civil partners.

The government estimates, as many as 84,000 mixed-sex couples could. the civil Partner, in this year, by getting Married you have more rights and protection within your relationship, without

from Wirksworth, Derbyshire, are another mixed couples go through the civil partnership ceremonies on The Day , as it was possible.

she was Married to other people before and one of the alternative options wanted.

'Patriarchal baggage,'

Ms Brown said she and Mr felt Grisswell me "strongly" that "repeat the vows and promises, knowing that they had not work the First Time , was the way to go, we wanted".

Mary Ann Lund and Gareth wood, Market Harborough , Leicestershire, also went through a civil partnership ceremony on Tuesday.

"It's more about the equality of a partnership rather than a marriage," Dr. Lund said.

"this is something That is important to us that we feel, it is a kind of historical, Patriarchal baggage in the marriage and it's not particularly something for us. "

Julie Thorpe and Keith Lomax pairs are among thousands of the other sex, to go in a civil partnership

Another couple, Julie Thorpe, 61, and Keith Lomax, 70, said they were delighted that among The First mixed-sex people officially enter a civil partnership, But it would not change your relationship "one iota".

The couple, from near Hebden Bridge , West Yorkshire , have lived together for most of their 37-year relationship and have three children.

you have a civil partnership ceremony in a registry office in Halifax.

Ms Thorpe said: "It will not change one iota of our relationship. It will make no difference in how we behave towards each other, when we get up the next day.

"We had a very successful partnership for 37 years and a bit of paper is not going to make no difference, to whatever. It gives us some legal protection in this regard. "

Mr. Lomax, a lawyer for Human Rights , added: "It is a joint celebration of all of this and also of the people who actually brought the case to court and changed The Law in the First Place , because that was a very brave and courageous thing to do, at significant financial Risk . "

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Source of news: bbc.com